Resources

Catastrophe & Climate Resources

Climate Risk - An Introduction

Life & Health Care Cost

Physical Damage - Property & Agriculture

Cyber Risk

Mitigation, Adaptation, Resilience and Sustainable Solutions

Data Sources, Tools and Indices

Call for Essays/Webcasts/Publications

External Resources

Climate & Environmental Risks -Sources & Science

Lists introductory reports both published by the SOA Research Institute and other organizations.

Climate, Weather, and Environmental Sources for Actuaries, 2022 Update

Environmental Risk Series - Read this series of environmental risk research for actuaries.

How Do They Know and What Could We Do? The Science of 21st Century Climate Projections and Opportunities for Actuaries

Climate, Weather, and Environmental Sources for Actuaries - Read a collection of sources that deal with the questions of what do scientists know, and what could actuaries do regarding climate risk, environmental risks, and weather.

Climate Sources for Actuaries - This project initiated the development of a repository of information regarding existing climate and environmental sustainability research of interest to actuaries.

Determining the Impact of Climate Change on Insurance Risk and the Global Community Phase 1: Key Climate Indicators

Data Sources, Tools, and Indices

Data Sources

A Practical Guide for Working with Weather Datasets Series - Topic #2: Strategies for Processing Large Weather Datasets, December 2022

A Practical Guide for Working with Weather Datasets Series - Topic #1: The Main Types of Weather Datasets, October 2022

Tools, Indices, and Models

This Excel/VBA tool can extract temperature, precipitation and snowfall data from the Global Historical Climate Network (GHCN) daily weather dataset, and run tabulations on the extracted data.

Predictive Modeling of Surface Temperature Extremes over North America, with Actuarial Applications in View

Actuaries Climate Index

Call for Essays/Webcasts/Publications

2021 From 9/11 to COVID-19: The Unthinkables Call for Essays

COVID-19 Visualizations of Interest to Actuaries – Access visualizations exploring the correlation between the COVID-19 pandemic and a theme of choice of the individual contributing authors.

2018 Environmental Sustainability Essays – Access the essay collection, which focuses on unknown knowns: where we have data but the future looks different from the past. The authors identify data sets or historical patterns of experience that are not predictive because something has changed, such as a slow trend or a discontinuity.